Buckle



(No Model.)

0. R. HARRIS.

BUCKLE.

Patented Mar. 17, 1885.

INVHNTOR:

ATTORNEYS.

lUNrTR- STATES PATENT @rrrcn.

CHARLES R. HARRIS, OF CORTLAND, NEWV YORK.

BUCKLE.

$PECIPICA'I'ION forming part of Letters Patent No. 314,018, dated March 17, 1885.

Applicatitn filed August 6. 1884. (So model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I. CHARLES R. HARRIs. of Cortland, in the county of Cortland and State of New York,havc invented certain new and useful Improvements in'Suspender and other Buckles, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to suspender and other like buckles, or combined buckles and hooks capable of manipulation or adjustment from the front, and in which a fixed toothed bar in the rear of the body of the buckle is used; and it consists in a fixed toothed bar of hollow construction having teeth along both of its edges for use in connection with a presser'bar forming part of the folding or closing portion of the buckle, and arranged to press the web of the suspender or strap to which the buckle is applied into or between and firmly against the double row of teeth to secure a more perfect fastening of the buckle.

The invention also consists in a combined buckle and hook having a fixed tooth-bar on its body, made with its folded or closing portion to loop or hook over the hook, or to receive the hook along it, whereby said folding or closing portion is held closed and allowed to open by the engagement and disengagement with the hook of the ring to which the front ends of the suspenders are attached; and the invention furthermore consists in a special construction of the buckle, substantially as hereinafter shown and described;

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings,formingpart of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate cor responding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 represents a front view of a suspender-strap in part with abuckle embodying one part of my invention applied, and showing, in part, the ring-engaging ends of the suspenders attached. Fig. 2 is a partly sectional edge view of the same, and Fig. 3 a front view of the combined buckle and hook detached. Fig. 4 is a front view of a modified construction of the combined buckle and hook embodying the two first-named parts of the invention, and Fig. 5 an edge view of the same. Fig. 6 is an edge view showing a different construction of the modification illustratedin Figs. 4 and 5.

Referring, in the first instance, to Figs. 1, 2, and 3 of the drawings, the body a, front folding or closing part, a, and hook at are or may be made of a single pieceof round springwire, whereby not only strength 'is combined with cheapness, but the buckle is prevented from cutting or tearing the vest or shirt of the wearer.

Fixedly secured to the sides of the body a is the rear toothed cross-bar, I), over which and under the closing portion a of the buckle the strap A of the suspenders passes when the buckle is adjusted to the suspendeis. This crossbar b is of a hollow construction on its face, and has teeth 0 c inclining downward along both edges of it. The folding or closing part a of the buckle is constructed to form a presser-bar, and is arranged opposite the hollow face of the bar I), so that when bearing down, which in this instance it does by its spring construction on the outside of the web or strap A,it deflects said web into the hollow face of the bar I) and firmly engages both rows of teeth 0 c with the web, thus obtaining a very firm and distributed hold. By reason of the downwardly-iuclining position of the two rows of teeth 0 c it is only necessary, when adjusting or sliding the buckle up the strap A, to pull outward on the lower end of the strap A when released from under the lower portion of the body a, and to turn or bear said end upward against the cross-bar portion of the closing part a of the buckle,and when required to adjust the buckle down the strap it is only necessary to pull outward on the lower end of said strap and to bear downward and inward on the body of the buckle.

B B indicate the front ends of the suspend ers, and d the ring by which said ends are connected with the hook a In Figs. 4 and 5 of the drawings substantially the same construction is shown, so far as the body a, folding or closing part a, hook portion a", and hollow double-toothed bar I) are concerned, excepting that the closing portion a" is made to spring outward instead of inward, and is extended downward beyond its pinching cross-bar to receive the hook a along it, or through a loop, a, in it, so that when said closing portion a is shut down and the ring (1 of the ends B B of the suspenders are passed over the hook it will be kept closed by the ring, and so that by unhitehing the ring from the hook the opening and closing portion a will be released to admit of the free adjustment of the buckle up or down the strap. The dotted lines in Fig. 5 represent the folding or closing portion a as sprung open;

In Fig. 6 of the drawings a similar construction is shown to that represented in Figs. 4

other and forming a hollow or space in be tween them, in combination with the folding or closing front portion of the buckleycon structed substantially as described, to form a I presser bar opposite the toothed cross-bar between the duplicate rows of teeth thereon, substantially as specified.

2. The combination, with the body of the buckle having a fixed toothed cross-bar and attached lower hook, a of the folding or closing portion a of the buckle, constructed substantially as'described, to form a presser-bar in front of the toothed cross-bar and extended downward to receive the hook along it or through it, essentially as and for the purposes herein set forth. J g

3. The buckle having its body a, folding or closing portion a, and hook a made of a single piece of spring round wire, with its folding portion a constructed substantially as deward, in combination with the fixed toothed cross-bar I), provided with upper and. lower tially as shownand described.

CHARLES R. HARRIS. I \Vitnesses: E1) F. HItroHooeK, I JoI-IN SMITH.

scribed,to form a presser-bar set to spring inrows of downweirdly-inclining teeth, 0 c, cssen- 45 

